Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Sample captures and an idea

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:46:15 -0800
> I am familiarizing myself with ethereal, so I naturally tried it out on the sample files.
> Version 0.8.3 barfs on the IMAP sample file ("The capture file appears to be 
> damaged or corrupt") after the eigth frame. 

That's because the file appears to be damaged or corrupt after the
eighth frame; after gunzipping it, if I try to run "tcpdump" on it, I
get:

	tcpdump: pcap_loop: bogus savefile header

so it's not as if it's just Ethereal that doesn't like it.